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IMCS part of new NOAA Cooperative Institute |
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 NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and National Marine Fisheries Service , have selected a consortium of five universities for the new Cooperative Institute for North Atlantic Region (CINAR). The institutions will join NOAA to conduct ocean and climate research to better understand the correlation between climate change and variability, fishing practices and fish populations, and to develop an integrated capability to research emerging issues from an ecosystem perspective.
Led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass., the consortium will include Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.; University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, Md.; University of Maine, Orono, Maine; and Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, Maine. The group was selected through a competitive process.
"We are excited to welcome this consortium of groups which brings with it unique expertise to examine the effects of climate change on North Atlantic ecosystems," said Richard Spinrad, NOAA assistant administrator for oceanic and atmospheric research. "Collaborating with the NOAA Fisheries and the selected universities, we can enhance northern region climate research and expand fisheries forecasting and science issues from an ecosystem perspective."
Working closely with NOAA scientists, CINAR researchers will strive to:
- Develop new approaches for monitoring ecosystem health and forecast ecosystem change;
- Improve the integration and availability of ocean observations across different spatial scales;
- Distinguish human impacts to marine resources from those created by natural changes in climate;
- Research the linkages of climate change and ecosystem health to fish and fisheries productivity and pollution;
- Examine expected increases in socioeconomic benefits accrued from a better understanding of the effects climate change.
News Release (September 24th, 2009) :
Climate Change Meets Ocean Life in New Northeast Research Institute
- Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region (CINAR) Will Improve Ecosystem Management.
 Visit CINAR website
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NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research